Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
Stephen Hawking

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia Earhart

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton